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A 29,000 kg freight car is coasting at 0.700 m/s with negligible friction under a hopper that dumps 150,000 kg of scrap metal into it.
(a)
What is the final velocity (in m/s) of the loaded freight car? (Enter the magnitude.)
(b)
How much kinetic energy (in J) is lost?
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(a)
According to the conservation of momentum, the momentum of the system in the direction of coasting must be conserved. The momentum conservation gives,
Here, m is the mass of the freight car, v is the initial velocity of the freight car, M is the mass of the scrap metal and is the final velocity of the loaded freight car.
Rearranging the equation,
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